[GRASS-user] v.rast.stats over a large vector file

[Markus Metz]

On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 5:37 PM,  <razmjooeis at faunalia.co.uk> wrote:
>> No...same error
>> /usr/local/grass-6.5.svn/scripts/v.rast.stats2: 350: Syntax error: "("
>> unexpected
>
> The line looks like this:
>
> # create array with new column names
> col=( `cat "$COLNAMETMP" | tr '\n' ' '` )
>
> This looks like a bash-ism. In case that /bin/sh isn't bash
> on Sab's machine but another shell it is likely to fail.
>
Hmm. Since you (Markus N) are listed as main author and I merely try
to promote v.rast.stats2, and my knowledge of scripting is limited to
bash, do you have a suggestion about how to make this portable to
non-bash?

Markus M